Definition of "revivify"

revivify

/ɹiːˈvɪvɪfʌɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present revivifies, present participle revivifying, simple past and past participle revivified
1. (transitive) To reanimate, bring back to life.
  Quotations
  His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; [...]
  1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 26”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
2. (transitive) To reinvigorate or revitalize.
  Quotations
  Despite the patrician allure of much that Choiseul attempted, a renovating, technocratic spirit was abroad during his tenure of office which sought to rationalize and revivify government service [...].
  2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 256
3. (chemistry, transitive, now rare) To reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).
4. (chemistry, intransitive, now rare) To become effective again as a reagent etc.